/* (c) Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
     [See end of file]

     $Id: NullIterator.java,v 1.10 2008/01/02 12:07:36 andy_seaborne Exp $
 */

package com.hp.hpl.jena.util.iterator;

/**
     An empty iterator. The specialised versions of andThen() eliminate left operands
     that are empty iterators from cascaded sequences.
*/
public class NullIterator extends NiceIterator 
    {
    public static NullIterator instance = new NullIterator();
    
    public ExtendedIterator andThen( ClosableIterator it )
        { 
        return it instanceof ExtendedIterator 
            ? (ExtendedIterator) it 
            : super.andThen( it )
            ;
        }
    }


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 */
